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35: Don't DeExtinct the Dodo, Humans vs Computers, and Art Forgery

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I'm No Longer Obsessive by My Brother, My Brother and Me

Travis and Griffin McElroy talk about art forgery on this week's episode of their radio show. In 2011, scientists from the University of Oxford published a paper titled Human Cortical Activity evoked by the Assignment of All Fenticity When Viewing Works of Art. They found that artwork that was assigned as a copy evoked a stronger response in a small region at the front of the brain called the Fronto Polar Cortex. So does it really matter if the piece of art is a forgery? And if so, why?

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